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We'll start you off with this water lily in a pot next to the Kline's front
entrance.
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In the backyard behind this black taro we find their pond headwaters ....
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Which emanate from here (where their big female toad hangs out)...
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... and opens into their main pond with a narrow-leaf cattail center piece.
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Looks good enough to look at it again from a different angle.
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Their main pond features yellow and red water lilies.
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Plus a border of various foreground plants including this unusual portulaca.
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The main pond overflows here and runs through this bio-filter of water hyacinths
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And courses thru a rocky stream dotted with various plants (small black taro
here).
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... Even past some sweet potatoes of various strains.
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Then under this handy footbridge, thru a bio-filter, and down another rocky
spillway ...
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Where it empties into this water lily pond surrounded by banks of flowers.
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Again we see many elements comprising the border. Next -- some fun
elements.
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This kiddie pool and the tote beside it hold hundreds of Jim's water
lettuce "weeds."
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Pleasant place to watch the pond while feeding the Granger
mosquitoes.
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Their pet dragonfly couldn't keep up with the mosquitoes. LA.
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© 2004 LA Productions

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